Chad Kirby rebrands to Ray White Eyre Peninsula

IN one of Australia’s best known seafood capitals, Streaky Bay in South Australia, Chad Kirby has rebranded his successful business to Ray White.

Streaky Bay - famous for its oysters, abalone and fishing - is a coastal location known as a lifestyle location with its dramatic cliffs and extensive surf beaches, plus its fertile farming country.

Ray White Eyre Peninsula Principal Chad Kirby loves his local community of 2200 people which swells to two to three times its population in the warmer months when holidaymakers arrive.

“I've been working in real estate for approximately 15 years in Streaky Bay and I'm excited about joining Australia’s largest franchised group, Ray White. It’s a bigger, better brand which is family owned and led, which I like,” Mr Kirby said.

“I sell across a huge area in this area known for its aquaculture, but my focus is not only residential sales, but broadacre farms of grain, wheat, oats and livestock.

“I sell anything from oyster farms to commercial property too. We're a total one-stop-shop and we do our own photography and drone photography too.”

The agency - which has more than 300 listings - services a huge area, west to the WA border and up to 200km inland.

“We're hoping to achieve more broadacre farm sales in this bolder, more innovative brand which is well-known in the industry for its technology, training and for being family led,” he said.

Mr Kirby, and his wife Samantha, arrived in Streaky Bay almost by chance some 15 years ago after driving across the country from Perth to Melbourne via the Nullarbor Plain.

“We stopped in Streaky Bay and six hours later we bought a property,” he said.

Now the family, with their little daughter Lily, could not think of a better place to live and work.

“I used to be the tour manager for ABC children's shows and we were driving the sets across back from WA. So we stopped and had some amazing prawns and some nice wine and decided, this is the life, right here,” he said.

That was 2005 and the Kirbys have never looked back.

“We didn’t know a soul when we moved here and now we own three businesses in the town and we love it, it’s a tight-knit community.”

Ray White South Australia CEO Matt Lindblom congratulated Mr Kirby on this new opportunity with his Ray White Eyre Peninsula business.

“Chad Kirby is a very experienced real estate and rural salesperson who was looking for the opportunity to grow his business further and service the broader Eyre Peninsula region,” Mr Lindblom said.

“Chad’s ambitions are well supported by his administration and property management team, and he's looking forward to taking an already successful business at Streaky Bay, to the next level.

“On behalf of the Ray White family, we welcome Chad, Samantha and their team to the group and look forward to their success.”